2023 Legislature

The decision that local authorities would plug the hole in the state’s employee group health benefits fund was authorized in the legislative session in House Bill 2. But Republican Senator Pat Woods, who sits on the Senate Finance Committee, said he didn't know it was in there.

The law ensures people who use state-regulated insurance, such as Medicaid, have access to crucial testing for determining treatment.

It is the latest in a series of legal actions over access to abortion in New Mexico, although the procedure remains legal here and a new law prevents municipalities interfering in reproductive care.

For the second year in a row, Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham has vetoed raises for the state’s judges and justices that the Legislature had approved.

Lawmakers approved a bill in the just-ended legislative session that requires insurance plans to waive cost sharing for breast examinations.

A law passed in the legislative session extends the timeline of a 2019 plan to assist people, many from the Navajo Nation, laid off when the San Juan Generating Station closed.

New Mexico Chief Justice Shannon Bacon said in January the courts were advocating for the elimination of post-adjudication fees. She called it an unjust practice of paying for government functions on the backs of those who can least afford it.

Following an hours-long debate, the New Mexico House passed a bill to protect those who provide or seek abortions or gender-affirming care in the state. the measure would enshrine into law safeguards for out-of-state patients and clinicians issued by executive order after the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade.

Its passage comes just before the federal government ends the extended Medicaid coverage begun during the worst of the pandemic.

The New Mexico House on Wednesday approved raises for state supreme court justices and lower court judges. The bill now heads to the governor who vetoed a similar proposal last year.